Identifying emotional and informational support in online health communities

COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 827-836

  Biyani, Prakhar ^a   Caragea, Cornelia ^b   Mitra, Prasenjit ^a   Yen, John ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DISEASES; LINGUISTICS;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS; HEALTH ISSUES; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

HEALTH;

EID: 84959892881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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